American Assassin has been stuck in development hell for quite a while now, but it looks like the adventures of CIA super-agent Mitch Rapp will finally be getting the go ahead, as the project now has a director in the form of  Jeffrey “Love and other drugs” Nachmanoff, replacing Ed Zwick.

007.com has been updated with the first in a series of video blogs by Skyfall director Sam Mendes. To be fair it doesn’t really reveal all that much, but to a James Bond fanboy such as myself, every new little snippet of info is like an early Christmas. Except Santa Claus is a badass, womanizing secret agent.

There’s a lot to love about Tim Burton and his gothic style of making films, but there’s also quite a few things to hate about his reboot-happy ass. Fortunately, the one film that he is rescucitating this year happens to be one of his own, the 1984 classic, Frankenweenie.

Deadline reports that Summit Entertainment is going to be bringing Erin Morgenstern’s 2011 best seller novel, The Night Circus, to the big screen. Moira Buffini has been hired to adapt the story about a mysterious and fantastical circus and its two dueling magicians, who are engaged in a generations old feud.

I really shouldn’t laugh about kids getting traumatized, but oh man, I would pay good money to have been in the Wandworth Cineworld recently. The Guardian reports that the South London cinema accidentally aired trailers for The Devil Inside and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance to a cinema full of young kids expecting to see animated kitty-cat cuteness in Puss in Boots.

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It’s been quite some time since we’ve seen a big-screen portrayal of the angry painter, with Anthony Hopkins being the last person to step into the role, many years ago, in Surviving Picasso. And now, Antonio Banderas is going to grab a paintbrush and canvas, and bring the deceased artist back to life in the French and Spanish language film, …

Wanderlust comes out soon, and if you’re looking for a feel-good comedy that also happens to feature the main actors getting high as a kite off of some funky shrooms, then this might be just the movie that you’ve been looking for. Co-Writer Ken Marino pulls double duty acting as the older, neurotic brother who allows for his sibling and wife to …

What do Alfie, The Italian Job and a Beatles classic tune have in common? They were all filmed at the legendary London Twickenham film studio, but it seems that the iconic property just cannot afford to serve as an area for dream films and music videos to be made, as it will be sold off to property developers this week.

Whether it was due to the 2010 World Cup, Neil Blomkamp’s District 9 or maybe even our very own special presidential version of the Bachelor (Who is going to be JZ’s next wife? Tune in this week!), it seems that our little corner of Africa is quite popular in the movie world nowadays. Hot on the heels of Denzel Washington …

What the hell happened to Eddie Murphy?! At one stage the foul-mouthed comedian was arguably the funniest man on the planet, capable of sending an entire cinema into gut busting bouts of laughter with just a single perfectly timed expletive.  But ever since he underwent his family-friendly Disneyfication, he has been churning out nothing but criminally unfunny stinkers. And his …

He’s been everything from a count, to a WW2 soldier, to a space-cop, to a time traveller. Hell, even the son of God. And now, he may just be facing his most daunting task yet as he faces off against true heavyweights of the action genre. Can Jim Caviezel out-testosterone both Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenneger?